You May Be More Likely to Share Sex Secrets If You Live in This State

Many of us have had embarrassing or wild sexual experiences we're reluctant to disclose, but according to the anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper, the extent to which people harbor sexual secrets actually varies from state to state. The app analyzed posts from its 20 million users to figure out where people were making sex-related confessions the most, and the results aren't what you might expect. At the top of the list was West Virginia, which also happens to be the state that spends the second-longest amount of time per sex session. Interestingly, until a few years ago West Virginia had a law that prohibited unmarried, "lewdly associated" people from living together. According to Whisper, second in terms of sex-related confessions was Louisiana, which also is home to the least safe sex in the country. (Florida, the state with the fewest sex secrets, was also at the bottom of the U.S.'s safe-sex rankings.) Overall, the state ranking data left Whisper's staff pretty baffled. "It's hard for us to offer a definitive explanation for why the states are ordered in the way that they are," said head of communications Aishwarya Iyer — but regardless, she added, "You go, West Virginia!" Speaking of

Many of us have had embarrassing or wild sexual experiences we're reluctant to disclose, but according to the anonymous secret-sharing app Whisper, the extent to which people harbor sexual secrets actually varies from state to state.

The app analyzed posts from its 20 million users to figure out where people were making sex-related confessions the most, and the results aren't what you might expect.

At the top of the list was West Virginia, which also happens to be the state that spends the second-longest amount of time per sex session. Interestingly, until a few years ago West Virginia had a law that prohibited unmarried, "lewdly associated" people from living together.

According to Whisper, second in terms of sex-related confessions was Louisiana, which also is home to the least safe sex in the country. (Florida, the state with the fewest sex secrets, was also at the bottom of the U.S.'s safe-sex rankings.)

Overall, the state ranking data left Whisper's staff pretty baffled. "It's hard for us to offer a definitive explanation for why the states are ordered in the way that they are," said head of communications Aishwarya Iyer — but regardless, she added, "You go, West Virginia!"

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